The innkeeper of The Spouter Inn in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. An enlightened character for his time, he allows Queequeg, a cannibal, to stay in his inn. Puts Ishmael in the same room with the cannibal, but is also willing to use a plane to get the knots out of a pine bench, for Ishmael's bed. Represents the phenomenon of the common people in a society accepting strange things before the upper-class does.
An interesting character, to say the least, though rather short-lived. He only takes a part in the work from chapters two through five.

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.